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Yale’s Most Popular Class Ever and What We Can Learn from It

A few years ago, psychology professor, Laurie Santos, proposed a new elective class at Yale University. She believed it would be a helpful and relevant course for students. No one had any idea how popular it would become.

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Middle School Science Minute

Density of Pop

I was recently reading the January, 2018 issue of “Science Scope,” a magazine written for middle school science teachers, published by the National Science Teachers Association.

In this issue, I read the the Disequilibrium section, “Why is regular soda denser than diet soda,” written by Todd Hoover. The article helps teachers design a 5E Unit to help students visualize the differences between the densities of diet and regular soda/pop and learn about the nutritional differences between the two.

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NASA SCAN

Google Go Phone

“Android Go is a special configuration of Android Oreo designed for lower-end mobile devices, particularly those with less than 1GB of RAM. It features a number of stripped-down UI elements and variants of traditional Google apps made to optimize memory usage.”

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Middle School Science Minute

Learning Through Assessments

I was recently reading the January, 2018 issue of “Science Scope,” a magazine written for middle school science teachers, published by the National Science Teachers Association.

In this issue, I read the the Editor’s Desk article, “Engaging Students in Learning Through Assessment,” written by Patty McGinnis the Editor of Science Scope. In her article, she discusses how assessment is more than an indication of student progress, it can also be a powerful method for engaging students in active learning.

3 critical questions when it comes to transforming learning: Why should we innovate? How will we successfully implement innovative practices? What critieria and evidence will be used to determine success and efficacy?#LT8Keys#empower18#leadered

ScratchWork

Collaborative online whiteboard that is focused on math. This site does LaTeX well. You can write the LaTeX expressions, but more impressively, you can just draw the equation and it will convert it. Solves expressions as well.

Lessons for Movies

Web Spotlight:

Follow host Mike Rowe as he travels the country in search of remarkable people making a difference in their communities. Returning the Favor . . . Recognized by the Got Your 6 Foundation for dispelling stereotypes of post-war veterans. Some clips are 6-10 minutes long making them a nice fit for the classroom and advisory. Could even put them in Moodle with an H5P editor for formative assessment and then a single threaded forum for discussion. The show is in its second season on Facebook Watch, so you may need to use some “creativity” in getting this to your classroom . . .

“All good stories have a twist, and all great storytellers are just a little twisted. Join Mike Rowe for a different take on the people an events that you thought you knew — from pop-culture to politics from Hollywood to History . . . The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe — short mysteries for the curious mind with a short attention span.”

7 Thinking Patterns That Will That Rob You of Mental Strength (And What You Can Do About Them)

Just because you think something doesn’t make it true. Yet, you likely believe your brain when it casts doubt on your abilities or when it tells you that people don’t like you even though there’s little evidence supporting such statements.

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Google’s Android P is dropping support for Nexus tablets and only supports that last two versions of Pixel products. Is it a move to go to ChromeOS for everything or the end of the Google tablet as we knew it?

Free Rice Vocabulary Game

Freerice is still working (as of summer 2017). Each time you answer a question right, the banner ad that you see generates enough money for the World Food Programme to buy 10 grains of rice to help reach Zero Hunger.

Photos For Class

Teachers have told us they need a place to access safe images that are available to be used in the classroom and for educational purposes. Plus, they want accurate image citations. We’ve heard you and created “Photos For Class” to meet your needs for images!

Age Appropriate Images – All images are appropriate for the school setting, thanks to Flickr and Pixabay SafeSearch and our proprietary filters – Read More

Web Spotlight:

Nearly one-in-five Americans now listen to audiobooks

About three-quarters (74%) of Americans have read a book in the past 12 months in any format, a figure that has remained largely unchanged since 2012, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in January. Print books remain the most popular format for reading, with 67% of Americans having read a print book in the past year.

Print books remain the most popular format for reading, with 67% of Americans having read a print book in the past year.

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Jokes You Can Use:

A guy was an ice cream store and needed to fart. He decided the music was so loud that he just went for it and timed his farts to the beat of the music. After he relieved himself he looked up to see everyone staring at him. Than he realized that he was listening to his iPod.

What happens to a frog’s car when it breaks down?

It gets toad away.

Q: What did the duck say when he bought lipstick?

A: “Put it on my bill.”

Instead of “the John,” I call my toilet “the Jim.” That way it sounds better when I say I go to the Jim first thing every morning.

Q: What starts with E, ends with E, and has only 1 letter in it?

envelope

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Speaker

Could show the video. There is also a link to download a book (email address needed, but no confirmation).

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Mentally Strong Kids Have Parents Who Refuse to Do These 13 Things

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FoldScopes

Foldscope is an ultra-affordable, paper-based microscope that you assemble yourself. It is designed to be inexpensive, durable, and give optical quality similar to conventional research microscopes. With magnification of 140X and resolution of 2 microns, Foldscope brings microscopy to new places.

Our Mission is to produce low-cost scientific tools to globally expand access to science. We aim to break down the price barrier between people and the curiosity & excitement of scientific exploration.

National Teacher Institute – Civil War Trust

Our annual National Teacher Institute brings together educators from all over the world. This four-day event includes workshops, lectures, and tours from some of the leading experts in the history and education fields. Educators will be immersed in a friendly, fun, and engaging learning environment, where they will be able to network with other educators while learning new and innovative teaching methods.

This event is free but does require a $100, refundable, deposit be placed to reserve your spot. At the conclusion of the event, educators can apply for continuing education credits, provided by Virginia Tech University.

Web Spotlight:

Research: Children see words and faces differently from adults

Intuitively, if you want to get a good look at something – a word, a face, or pretty much anything else – you ought to look straight at it, and indeed that’s basically what adults do.

But the situation is different in children. For one thing, children’s circuits for words process a different region of the visual field, one that is shifted down and to the right, compared to adults. That means that in order to process words most efficiently, kids would need to look a bit up and to the left.